ICW: Congratulations To Mr. ST Buharnuddin As Attorney General, Successfully Defending Pinangki Sirna Malasari's Light Verdict

Attorney General ST Burhanuddin (Photo: kejaksaan.go.id)

JAKARTA - Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) satirized Attorney General ST Burhanuddin and his staff. This innuendo arose because the prosecutor did not file an appeal against the appeal decision that circumcised the sentence of Pinangki Sirna Malasari or Prosecutor Pinangki.

"ICW congratulates Mr. ST Burhanuddin as the Attorney General and his staff at the Attorney General's Office for successfully defending Pinangki Sirna Malasari's light sentence," Kurnia told reporters, Tuesday, June 6.

Not only that, he also said that the Attorney General's Office had succeeded in carving a black spot in the effort to eradicate corruption. Because, Pinangki, who is a law enforcer, should be given a maximum sentence, not just a sentence of four years in prison.

Furthermore, Kurnia said all handling cases of bribery, money laundering, and malicious conspiracy carried out by Pinangki were considered mere jokes or jokes by ICW.

"How there are not so many loopholes that the Attorney General does not want to uncover. One of them is the alleged high involvement in law enforcement agencies that guaranteed Pinangki to be able to meet Joko S Tjandra," he stressed.

Not only that, Kurnia also assessed that the current legal process could be a public assessment of how the KPK has neglected it.

"In this legal process, the public can also see how the KPK has neglected the handling of cases that are full of conflicts of interest," he said.

As previously reported, the public prosecutor did not file an appeal or accept the appeal decision of the DKI Jakarta High Court which reduced or circumcised Pinangki Sirna Malasari's sentence.

In the PT DKI decision, Pinangki's sentence was reduced to six years from 10 years in prison. So Pinangki Sirna Malasari's sentence was only four years in prison.

"That's right, the Public Prosecutor did not file an appeal," said Head of the Central Jakarta District Attorney's Office (Kejari) Riono Budi Santoso to VOI, Monday, July 5.

According to Riono, one of the reasons the prosecutor did not file an cassation was because he thought that all the demands had been fulfilled in the decision. Thus, there is no compelling reason to file an appeal.

"The prosecutor is of the view that the prosecutor's demands have been fulfilled in the decision of the PT (High Court), apart from there being no reason to file a cassation request as stipulated in Article 253 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code," he said.

Pinangki was previously found guilty in the case of the Supreme Court's (MA) fatwa gratification. Thus, the Panel of Judges at the Central Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced Pinangki to 10 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 600 million, subsidiary to 6 months in prison.

But at the appeal level, the appeals panel of the DKI Jakarta High Court decided to reduce Pinangki's sentence to 6 years. Thus, his prison sentence remains 4 years.